Doneen & Izzie

Just to start off, in the last post for my b-day, it was my idea for Jared to put the picture of the old lady. I mean, this is how I feel most days!! When I saw the picture, I thought it looked like my Great-Grandma Minnie, and when Parker and Jase saw it, they both said, "It's our cowboy Grandma" which is what they call GG Minnie. It cracked me up!
Speaking of Minnie, her actual name was Armeda, but when she was a baby, one of her siblings couldn't pronounce the name, so she became "Minnie". That brings me to Doneen. That is what Lizzie calls Dalila. I don't know why. She can say "Lila", and she can even say, "Dalila", sort of! But she insists on calling her Doneen. It may be a blend of Dalila Jean, but who knows?
Lizzie also calls herself, "Izzie". So now I call her Izzie. Izzie and Doneen. Not names that I picked out, and they probably won't stick like Minnie did. But still cute!
Lizzie really likes to "help" with Lila. She REALLY wants to feed her baby food, and is constantly getting out baby carrots, baby peas, baby bananas, you name it, and getting a spoon and bib and trying to force feed Lila. I try and get Lizzie to feed her babies, but no go.
This morning Lizzie was pulling on Lila trying to get her to crawl, and I told her to stop. A few minutes later, Parker asked if Lizzie could come out of time-out. I looked over, and Lizzie was standing with her nose in the corner, where we make the kids go for time-out. I told her she could come out, and she walked over to Lila and said, "I'm sorry, Doneen". So cute, but obviously not her first time-out!!
Lila is getting so mobile! She rolls all over the place, and she also scoots forward. She really wants to crawl, and she is getting close. It won't be long now and she'll be running!
Okay, so this just happened this afternoon, after I published this post, so I guess this is a P.S.:
We have been trying to get Lizzie to use the potty. Not seriously "potty training" her, but just getting her used to going in the potty sometimes. (I am determined that when we actually attempt to "potty train" it will be a matter of days, maybe weeks, not months or more than a YEAR like it was with the boys. I cannot do the tantrums and tears (on my part;)!) any more, so this time will be better!). Well, I was telling her that when she is all potty trained, we will buy her a new toy. I asked her if she would want a new doll, or maybe a slide, because she loves slides, but we don't have one. She thought about it for a minute, and then said, "Playhouse. " What? She wants a playhouse? I guess she's not one to go for the inexpensive toys. Jase was easy. He just wanted a light saber. Arrgh! Then, she actually went number 2!! Yea!!!She was very excited, and so was I, but now I think she is expecting a new playhouse today! She kept asking me the whole time I was trying to get her to take a nap. Hopefully she will forget about the playhouse while she is sleeping....